Publications by authors named "Keiko Ikedo"
Article Synopsis
- * A cohort study identified an outbreak in a Tokyo language school where a teenage student was diagnosed with MDR-TB, resulting in additional cases among classmates and detection of latent TB infections.
- * The study emphasizes the need for targeted TB screening for immigrants and recommends prophylactic measures for individuals exposed to MDR-TB to prevent further outbreaks.
Background: The aim of this study is to analyze interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA) data of foreign-born individuals in Japan derived from tuberculosis (TB) contact investigations.
Methods: A contact with a TB patient was considered to have occurred when an individual had contact with a TB patient for more than 8 h indoors. This is a retrospective cohort study, and all the TB contacts tested with IGRA during the contact investigations conducted by the Shinjuku city Health Office from 2015 through 2017 were enrolled.